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Outrage 013 – How moral misinformation uses emotion to generate outrage – Ritsaart Reimann
David Beckemeyer
There’s been a drum beat, suggesting that social media and information silos, echo chambers, are a driving force behind our divisiveness and polarization. New research suggests this may be overstated. It may have more to do with the very nature of how we come to know or believe things in the political realm. In this…
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Outrage 012 – How relationship counseling can help us heal political divisions – Tiffynee Terry Thomas
David Beckemeyer
Some scientists have made the analogy that our left / right politics in the United States are like a toxic marriage. In our opening series about political sectarianism, UC Irvine psychologist Peter Ditto, told us to buckle up: We’re in a very tenuous situation and it’s not one of these things that’s gonna resolve itself.…
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Summary, Highlights, and Transcript for BONUS ChatGPT vs. Human Political Persuasion – Hui Bai
David Beckemeyer
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Outrage BONUS – How ChatGPT AI Can Persuade Humans on Political Issues – Hui Bai
David Beckemeyer
The AI landscape is changing extremely fast. ChatGPT was first released to the public only a few months ago. We did an episode about it fairly early on. This new AI is being used already across many industries and applications, including writing code, policies, legal briefs, plans, job descriptions, analysis, and many others. Researchers realized…
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Summary, Highlights, and Transcript for The Neuroscience of Outrage Porn Part One with Alex Korb
David Beckemeyer
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Outrage 011 – Put your oxygen mask on first – Alex Korb
David Beckemeyer
achieve, actions, alexcorbphd, anxiety, autopilot, bestsellingauthor, complexworld, control, controllable, distinguish, divisiveness, effort, emotionalcontrol, emotions, focus, goal, lowerthetemperature, mood, neuroscience, nextstep, otherpeoplesreactions, OutrageOverload, politicalpolarization, smalllifechanges, stress, theupwardspiralapproach, thoughts, tribalismThis is part-two of a two-part series on “The Neuroscience of Outrage Porn.” We’re talking with Dr. Alex Korb, a neuroscientist and best-selling author. If you haven’t listened to part-one yet, it’s time to go listen because you don’t want to miss it. In part one, we learned about some of the brain systems involved…
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Transcripts and Timestamps for Outrage 005 – Holocaust Denial – Luke Berryman
David Beckemeyer
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Outrage Overload is a podcast about the outrage industry, my journey to discover what it is, how it affects us, and what we can do about it.